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Marco Rubio led the field of Republican presidential prospects in a nationwide poll released on Wednesday, though voters were split among five potential candidates. The Quinnipiac University poll of 712 Republicans found Sen. Rubio of Florida leading the pack with 19 percent, followed Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin with 17 percent, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with 15 percent, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie with 14 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 10 percent. All these candidates are more or less political outsiders. Sens. Rubio and Paul are backed by the tea party movement. Ryan is part of a younger breed of party reformers with an...

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Marco Rubio led the field of Republican presidential prospects in a nationwide poll released on Wednesday, though voters were split among five potential candidates.
The Quinnipiac University poll of 712 Republicans found Sen. Rubio of...

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas is visiting South Florida to help the Republican Party raise money — and at the same time audition for donors and activists who could prove valuable if he runs for president.
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His Holiness has a point. In his latest Exhortation, he declared “trickle-down” to be a cruel joke. Further enriching the rich as the best way to relieve the suffering of the economically strapped relies on the consciences of those at the top of the...

It’ll be next to impossible for Floridians to escape the presidential campaign in coming days.With the final Barack Obama-Mitt Romney debate set for Boca Raton on Monday, candidates and surrogates will be flooding the state – a sign of just how...

Host of ‘47 percent’ fundraiser back in the gameMarc Leder, whose $3 million mansion west of Boca Raton was the location of what became the most infamous fundraiser of the 2012 election, is back on the fundraising circuit.Leder was the host of a $50,000 a...

Nobody has more sensitive antennae to the zephyrs of public opinion than a U.S. Congressman, and Paul Ryan is no exception. That line from the Iowa Republican official that if he wanted to run for national office again in the future, he’d have to “wash...

Author's note: Perceptive readers will notice that my writing style in today's post is more formal than my usual screed. That's because it was originally written as tomorrow's editorial in the Sun Sentinel.Theories—both practical and cynical—abound as...

I thought it would be a good idea to get this cartoon out of the way quickly, because it’s unlikely this character is going to be around for long. Congressman Todd Akin has apologized, but he hasn’t been too specific about it. It’s unlikely that...

The above concept might be difficult for even Wayne LaPierre of the NRA to pull off, but I’m sure the party that dreamed up state-mandated trans-vaginal probes can come up with a solution.
The idea that a fertilized egg could be given...

Arriving on a bus that proclaimed him a champion of the middle class, Mitt Romney told a South Florida rally Monday that he'll reverse the painful economic decline he said has been exacerbated by President Barack Obama.Sounding hoarse after a grueling...

Elizabeth "Betty" RyanDouglas of Lauderdale-by-the-Sea will join her son, vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, on the campaign trail this weekend.She’s joining him at a Saturday morning rally at The Villages in Central Florida, some of the...

Phyllis Kaufman is a lifelong Democrat in Tamarac who might vote for Republican Mitt Romney in November, partly because she shares his belief that the new health-care law is a costly giveaway to freeloaders.Sandra Sullivan is a Republican in Orlando who...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama sparked a burst of enthusiasm from Florida's gay and lesbian voters and a backlash from conservative Christians in May when he proclaimed unequivocal support for same-sex marriage.Reverberations from that decision now...

Congressional Republicans sent a message Monday that they hope the Supreme Court and voters will hear: They have ideas to keep the country's health care system from crumbling if the justices obliterate a bedrock feature of President Barack Obama's heath...

OXON HILL, Md. Defining conservatism today is tough. Conservatives do remain guided by one firm principle: Government is too big. But there's no consensus on how to change it. Other issues divide as well. Does being conservative mean accepting...

Amid appeals for bipartisanship, President Barack Obama in just three days has provoked Republicans on issues as disparate as immigration, Wall Street and the Keystone XL pipeline — a combative mix of defense and offense that underscores Washington's...

WASHINGTON Sandwiched between two defining conservative events CPCAC and the Iowa Ag Summit is a less publicized but crucial confab for Republican presidential hopefuls seeking support from well-heeled donors. Held at the remote, luxury Sea...